TROPICALISM CHARLOTTE PERRIAND OSCAR NIEMEYER ZANINE CALDAS OCTOBER 11 - NOVEMBER 10, 2018 Oscar Niemeyer, untitled Collage © Tom Shapiro / Laffanour Galerie Downtown, Paris Press Contact : FAVORI - 233, rue Saint Honoré 75001 Paris – T +33 1 42 71 20 46 Grégoire Marot - Nadia Banian
[email protected] 1 TROPICALISM CHARLOTTE PERRIAND OSCAR NIEMEYER ZANINE CALDAS OCTOBER 11 - NOVEMBER 10, 2018 CHARLOTTE PERRIAND & BRAZIL In 1959, Charlotte Perriand, in collaboration with Le Corbusier and Lucio Costa, did the layout of “ La Maison du Brésil ” in the “ Cité Internationale de Paris. ” In 1962, her husband Jacques Martin was appointed director of Air France for the Latin America region, so until 1969 he made frequent trips to Brazil. Thanks to Lucio Costa, she meets architects Oscar Niemeyer and Roberto Burle Max, who introduced her to the Tropicalism movement. It is a global cultural movement that takes the opposite of the West, mixing different disciplines such as music or furniture. He emerged in Brazil in 1967, during the period of military dictatorship (1964-1985), and aspired to revolutionize his time. It is for its actors to meet both unique climatic requirements, while using local materials, and adopting the typical forms of these countries of South America. Very inspired, Charlotte Perriand created furniture for her apartment and for some projects on the spot, taking the lines of her European furniture, but having them made in local woods (such as jacaranda, or Rio rosewood) with braiding of rushes or caning. Press opening on